Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780813919812
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Black studies; Coal & solid fuel industries; Offenders; Penology & punishment; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Black American Sociology; History; Sociology; Penology; Birmingham Region; United States - State & Local - General; African American prisoners; Alabama; Coal mines and mining; Convict labor; Social conditions
First sentence: This book traces the history of black prisoners in Alabama from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the twentieth century.